Replication data for "The use of text messages as an alternative invitation method for breast cancer screening: a randomized controlled trial (M-TICS study)"

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This study aimed to determine whether a text message is as good as a postal letter as an invitation method for previous screenees in a breast cancer screening program, considering a non-inferiority margin of -2 percent points on participation rate. A non-inferiority randomized control trial was conducted. Women in the intervention group (n=5,362) were invited by text message, and women in the control group (n=5,482) were invited by letter, which is the standard invitation procedure of the program. In both groups, the invitation included a fixed appointment for mammography and a text message reminder 96 hours before the appointment. The primary outcome was screening participation rate (completing mammography within 12 weeks of invitation). The intention-to-treat analysis showed a participation rate of 87.3% and 86.6% in the control and intervention groups, respectively. The difference in participation rate was -0.7 percentage points (95% confidence interval [CI], -1.8 to ∞), indicating non-inferiority of text messages compared to letter invitations. The per-protocol analysis showed similar results. In conclusion, we found that a text message invitation for women who had previously participated in breast cancer screening was not inferior to the standard letter.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.34810/data1432
Metadata Access https://dataverse.csuc.cat/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34810/data1432
Provenance
Creator Vives, Núria ORCID logo; Vidal, Carmen ORCID logo; Niño de Guzmán, Ena Pery ORCID logo; Farre, Albert ORCID logo; Panera, Jon Aritz ORCID logo; Binefa, Gemma ORCID logo; Garcia, Mobtse; M-TICS research group
Publisher CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca
Contributor Garcia, Montse; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge
Publication Year 2024
Rights CC BY 4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Garcia, Montse (ICO-IDIBELL)
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Resource Type Clinical data; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values; text/plain
Size 894440; 2331
Version 1.1
Discipline Life Sciences; Medicine